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When Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks was diagnosed with cancer overseas, she didnt hightail it back home, to the best health care in the worldshe stayed in Australia, home to a humane, rational system.
In 2004, Id just finished a novel and by way of celebration had taken my family for an extended visit to Australia, where I was born and raised.
I didnt expect that trip to save my life. But Im convinced it did, because of Australias socialized medicine.
I retreat to my garret when I write a novel, especially toward the end. I stop going anyplace, wear sweat pants all day, neglect personal grooming. Back in the Sydney neighborhood where Id lived for many years, I was re-entering the civilized world, and was on the way to a salon for an overdue haircut when I passed the BreastScreen van, parked in the main street.This mobile service offers free mammograms, no appointment necessary. It wasnt until I saw that van that I realized a mammogram was one of the things Id forgotten to do. I was a year overdue, according to the guidelines for women my age, so I stepped into the van, got squished and zapped by a pleasantly efficient technician, who told me a radiologists report would be mailed out in a week or so.
Two weeks later, I was in a Sydney hospital, discussing treatment options for my invasive stage II cancer. According to testimony by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) at last Thursdays health-care summit, I should have been heading for the airport at that point. Like his unnamed Canadian state[sic] premier with the heart condition, I should have been hightailing it to the U.S., to avail myself of the best health care in the world.
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